Social Media as Workspace: Where Creativity Creates Problems
Abstract:
Taking the “Castle Doctrine [9:58]” discussed in the film essay as a starting point, this article examines the connections between the “home” and the “account.” After a brief review of the scene, which explains the doctrine and describes the home as the “place where you feel safe,” the text goes on to draw parallels with social media accounts, as a form of digital home. What are these spaces like? How and why are they created, used, and protected, and by whom? What forms of violence are practiced in them (as elsewhere) but hidden or obscured by the scale and turnover of new content? Drawing on conversations with the queer-feminist artists Anahita Neghabat, Julischka Stengele, Natalie Ananda Assmann, Sophia Süßmilch, and Stefanie Sargnagel about their experiences of working on social media, the text discusses forms of discrimination and violence that artists are confronted with in their work. It concludes by describing artistic strategies aimed at moving beyond the individual experiences of those involved in order to highlight social and epistemic forms of violence and facilitate discussion around them.

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